Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the November edition of ACM MemberNet. In this issue, we highlight the many multimedia enhancements to ACM's publications and activities, such as videos of animated short films from the SIGGRAPH conference, interviews with Roy Disney and Alan Kay in Computers in Entertainment, and the 2002 Turing Award lecture. ACM Fellow C. Gordon Bell is named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. And we report on the Supercomputing and OOPSLA conferences. As always, we welcome your comments about the content and format of MemberNet. Please email the editor at mn-editor@acm.org. If you'd like to unsubscribe from this service, please send an email to mn-request@acm.org with the words "Signoff MemberNet" in the body of the message. For the full issue of ACM MemberNet: http://www.acm.org/membernet IN THIS ISSUE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Multimedia Brings Sights and Sounds of 2002 Turing Award Lecture to Your Desktop" "Computers in Entertainment Features Video Interviews with Disney, Kay" "Portal Pearl 5.0: Videos with Sound from SIGGRAPH Animation Fest" "Supercomputing Conference Draws Innovators, Global Participation" "Portal Open House for Professional Members-There's Still Time!" "ACM Awards Nomination Deadline Extended" "Integrity and E-Voting Systems" "OOPSLA, Object Technology Conference, Promotes Debate, Competition and Fun" "Computer History Museum Honors Gordon Bell as Fellow" "Robert W. Floyd, In Memoriam" "JETT Offers Advanced Online Resources for Teachers, Universities" "Conquering Java Anxiety among Computer Science Teachers" "November Queue Spreads the Word on Instant Messaging" "Communications of the ACM Editorial Calendar" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Multimedia Brings Sights and Sounds of 2002 Turing Award Lecture to Your Desktop" The 2002 Turing Award lecture is now available for viewing in a variety of formats. Browsers can watch and listen to the lecture, presented in three parts by Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/turingmultimedia.11-12-03.html "Computers in Entertainment Features Video Interviews with Disney, Kay" Not only does ACM's new online magazine about entertainment and gaming technology talk about the developments in this fast-changing field--it incorporates sound, video, and animation into its very design.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/cie.11-12-03.html "Portal Pearl 5.0: Videos with Sound from SIGGRAPH Animation Fest" ACM's initiatives to add value to the Portal via multimedia enhancements are finally coming to fruition. The annual SIGGRAPH conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is a perfect case in point. http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_pearl.11-12-03.html "Supercomputing Conference Draws Innovators, Global Participation" "Igniting innovation" was the theme of the 15th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC2003), the international conference on high-performance computing and networking... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/sc2003.11-03.html "Portal Open House for Professional Members-There's Still Time!" The Portal Open House for ACM Professional Members is still going on. Through the end of November, Professional Members without current Portal subscriptions can freely search the ACM Digital Library and Guide... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_open_house.10-03-03.html "ACM Awards Nomination Deadline Extended" The deadline for nominations for 6 of the 12 major ACM awards has been extended to December 31, 2003.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/acmawards.11-13-03.html "Integrity and E-Voting Systems" As state and local election officials turn to computerized e-voting systems to replace or upgrade current voting equipment, the stakes are high.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm.11-17-03.html "OOPSLA, Object Technology Conference, Promotes Debate, Competition and Fun" OOPSLA, the premier conference on object technology, is known as a place for lively debates, and this year didn't disappoint. Its panels were educational, participatory, and just plain fun.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/oopsla.11-19-03.html "Computer History Museum Honors Gordon Bell as Fellow" C. Gordon Bell, an ACM Fellow and winner of ACM's Eckert-Mauchly award, was inducted as a Fellow by the Computer History Museum at its annual Fellow Awards Celebration... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/gordonbell.11-6-03.html "Robert W. Floyd, In Memoriam" Donald Knuth has written a eulogy for Robert W. Floyd. An ACM Turing Award recipient, Floyd was best known for his seminal 1967 paper, "Assigning Meanings to Programs"... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/floyd.pdf "JETT Offers Advanced Online Resources for Teachers, Universities" ACM's JETT (Java Engagement for Teacher Training) project has enhanced its Web site to provide news and resources for both high school Computer Science teachers and the universities that host workshops... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/jett.11-10-03.html "Conquering Java Anxiety among Computer Science Teachers" Eric Roberts has a plan for overcoming the complexity and instability inherent in Java as a teaching language.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/ericroberts.11-10-03.html "November Queue Spreads the Word on Instant Messaging" Although the technology has yet to mature, instant messaging has the potential to revolutionize the way we communicate with one another. The November issue of Queue investigates what's being done to develop... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/queue.11-10-03.html "Communications of the ACM Editorial Calendar" http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/cacmeditorialcalendar2004.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If your attempt to sign off is unsuccessful, it may be because you were subscribed to MN-SUBSCRIBERS with an email address other than the one from where your request is originating. Please write to membernet@acm.org and we will find the email address under which you are subscribed, and remove it from the list. To submit feedback about ACM MemberNet: mn-editor@acm.org. Technical problems: mn-request@acm.org.